Professor Xiaolan Fu and a consortium of eight other partners have won a 2.5 million euro award for a research project on multinational enterprises (MNEs) and development.

The 'MNEmerge' project will be funded by the European Commission Framework Programme 7 (FP7).

The project aims to examine the role of multinational enterprises in global development, especially in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In particular, it will focuses on the impact of MNEs on building local capabilities and poverty alleviation, sanitation and health, renewable energy and sustainable development, as well as global partnership through three case studies in Ghana, India and Brazil.

The other partners in the consortium include Professors Juha Vaatanen (LUT), Pervez Ghauri (KCL), Shyama Ramani (Brunel), Bart Verspagen (UNU-MERIT) and Kari Liuhto (UoT) and three institutions from Ghana, India and Brazil. 

LUT in Finland will be the leading institution coordinating the project.